Charge Discounts

You can apply discounts to the charges for an encounter from the Charge Posting window in NextGen® Enterprise PM. You can enable Discounts in the Practice Preferences window by selecting Enable discounts in charge entry and Apply patient discount to patient balance only options on the Charge Entry tab. When this functionality is enabled, you can open the Discounts window and select the following for each encounter.

• You can select Discount Adjustment Code to apply discounts to charges.
• You can select Encounter to apply discount adjustment to all charges on the encounter or Line Item to apply discount adjustment only for selected charges on the encounter for the Discount Level.
• You can select By Percentage when the discount amount is in percentage of the total charge amount or Line Item when you apply the discount adjustment only for selected charges on the encounter for the Discount Method.

After selecting Discount Adjustment Code, Discount Level, and Discount Method, the system applies the discount to the selected charges on the encounter, reducing the balance on each charge.